Twelve years later, the boy, now called Mowgli, is as much a part of the jungle as the rest of the wildlife, with Shere Khan his only enemy. While Natu's mother Messua grieves, a family of wolves, headed by father Akeda and mother Raksha, take Natu in and treat him as one of their own cubs. When Masu runs after him, he is killed by Shere Khan, and the rest of the men are too frightened to enter the jungle. Masu places his young son Natu away from the builders, and moments later the baby wanders off into the trees. One night, the people of a growing village work through the night, hoping to create a great city. There also exists an ongoing struggle between man and nature, village and jungle. There is Baloo the bear, who teaches jungle law Bagheera, the wise panther the wicked crocodile Mugger and Shere Khan, a killer tiger whose stripes were whipped onto his hide by the jungle trees. In India, the daughter of the British magistrate pays a native storyteller to recite what he calls "the story of India:" Deep in the jungle, wildlife rules with an intricate hierarchy.
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